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In Part Two of our discussion of Back to the Future, we first reveal who we chose for our recasting picks, as well as share some fantastic audience picks for the roles. We then go on to contemplate how the movie plays fast and loose with the space-time continuum, and discuss whether there might be ways to tighten that up a bit in our remake, but without losing the fun nature of the original movie. We also discuss the rather creepy nature of Marty’s “relations” with his Mom, Lorraine, in 1955 (especially regarding the prom night shenanigans), Mark finds various ways to kill Marty while exploring alternate time travel scenarios, Jer contemplates a different time travel era for our remake, Lee leads a discussion about the special effect possibilities, and, finally, we talk about some of our favorite time travel movies that we think everyone should check out. (We promise that the episode doesn’t run-on like that last sentence did.)

Oh! And we reveal Lee’s real last name!

Back to the Future

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Here is part one of our discussion of one of the most beloved science fiction comedies of all time, Back to the Future. Here we tackle recasting five major characters, and three minor characters, and have a lot of fun (and a pretty tough time) recasting both Doc Brown and Marty. Kyle and Andy nearly have a falling out over Taylor Swift, we contemplate how exactly Doc Brown doesn’t age…at all…, and Mark gives us his informed, expert opinion of just how well Michael J. Fox faked it with his rendition of ‘Johnny B. Goode’.

Back to the Future

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In Part Two of our discussion of Spies Like Us, we reveal who we chose for recasting the two major characters, as well as our two favorite minor character recasting choices, talk about the merits of the ‘comedy star + comedy star’ buddy movies of old, versus today’s ‘action star + comedy star’ buddy movies, contemplate how serious or action driven to have this remake skew, and, finally, reveal some of our favorite buddy movies of all time.

Spies Like Us

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Next Episode’s Movie – Back to the Future

In part one of our discussion of the Cold War comedy classic Spies Like Us, we take on the daunting task of recasting Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd’s roles, as well as a veritable plethora of minor characters. Also, we wax poetic about missing the Cold War a bit…but only as a movie making backdrop, not the actual thing. I think. Maybe.

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In Part Two of our discussion of 1984’s award winning musical biopic Amadeus, we reveal who’s recasting picks we chose for both Salieri and Mozart, continue to show our appreciation for how music was discussed in the original, and how we’d honor that in our remake, talk about how this could be modernized, and finally, in a segment called ‘The Pitch’, each pitch our own musical biopic to the all powerful Joe Hollywood.

Amadeus

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